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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorW.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
David Levering Lewis · 752 pages
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Wil Haygood · 410 pages
"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century,"--Novelist.
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
James H. Cone · 368 pages
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
John D'Emilio · 568 pages
Bayard Rustin is one of the most important figures in the history of the American civil rights movement. Before Martin Luther King, before Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin was working to bring the cause to the forefront of America's consciousness. A teacher to King, an international apostle of peace, and the organizer of the famous 1963 March on Washington, he brought Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence to
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline · 306 pages
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
Taylor Branch · 1,056 pages
This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom worke
March: Book One
John Lewis · 125 pages
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Lut
Master of the Senate
Robert A. Caro · 1,232 pages
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
Adam Cohen, Elizabeth Taylor · 614 pages
This is Chicago, this is America. With those words, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley famously defended his brutal crackdown on protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention. Profoundly divided racially, economically, and socially, Chicago was indeed a microcosm of America, and for more than two decades Daley ruled it with an iron fist. The last of the big city bosses, Daley ran an unbeatable politica
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Stephen B. Oates · 562 pages
The first major biography of King, based on extensive research in manuscript collections, traces King's personal development as well as the development of his ideas on protest and nonviolent resistance, from the influence of Thoreau and Gandhi through the details of his participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life
Marshall Frady · 224 pages
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
Andrew Helfer · 112 pages
The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the award-winning graphic-novel editor behind Road to Perdition and The History of Violence, and welcome the launch of a unique line of graphic biographies. If a picture is worth a thousand words, these graphic biographies qualify as tomes.
True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
Kostya Kennedy
True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's—and America's—most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball’s singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a half
Nelson Mandela
Kadir Nelson · 40 pages
Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela · 638 pages
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Bonnie Bader · 112 pages
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Alex Haley · 484 pages
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 381 pages
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Barbara Ransby · 501 pages
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
David Remnick · 656 pages
No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or explores the ambition behind his rise.Those familiar with Obama's own best-selling memoiror his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to e
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip M. Hoose · 146 pages
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Randy Shilts · 388 pages
The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and political life is a st
Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Paula J. Giddings · 824 pages
Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery, her career as a journalist and a pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, and her determination to counter lynching.